TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex dimorphism in adult stature in four Chilean populations
AU - Valenzuela, Carlos Y.
AU - Rothhammer, Francisco
AU - Chakraborty, Ranajit
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the Programa RLA 76/047 from PNUD/ UNESCO and grants 4122-N, 4178-R, 4121-R of the Comision Tecnica de Desarrollo Cientifico y Creacion Artistica de la Universidad de Chile and a general support grant 5 SO7 RR 14804 from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas. We are grateful to Dr. H. Palomino for making some of his unpublished data available to us.
PY - 1978
Y1 - 1978
N2 - The sex dimorphism for adult stature is compared in four Chilean populations which differ in their AmerIndian ABO blood group composition. Statistical analysis revealed a significant association between sex dimorphism and AmerIndian admixture in these populations. Assuming, on one hand, that sex chromosomes have an influence on adult stature and human growth and considering, on the other, that the four populations differ in their X and Y chromosome composition as a consequence of an asymmetrical inter-racial marriage practice, it is postulated that the observed association between sex dimorphism and AmerIndian gene composition is a result of this peculiar mating structure.
AB - The sex dimorphism for adult stature is compared in four Chilean populations which differ in their AmerIndian ABO blood group composition. Statistical analysis revealed a significant association between sex dimorphism and AmerIndian admixture in these populations. Assuming, on one hand, that sex chromosomes have an influence on adult stature and human growth and considering, on the other, that the four populations differ in their X and Y chromosome composition as a consequence of an asymmetrical inter-racial marriage practice, it is postulated that the observed association between sex dimorphism and AmerIndian gene composition is a result of this peculiar mating structure.
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U2 - 10.1080/03014467800003211
DO - 10.1080/03014467800003211
M3 - Article
C2 - 742841
AN - SCOPUS:0018188897
SN - 0301-4460
VL - 5
SP - 533
EP - 538
JO - Annals of Human Biology
JF - Annals of Human Biology
IS - 6
ER -